We Had To Be Dragged To Greatness

You see. It was for your own good.

Left to it's own devices, America might've ended up peaceful, prosperous and isolationist. Could a worse fate be imagined than this one? Luckily the nation was steered into baby bombing and martial glory by wise heads working behind the scenes. For our own good, of course.

I Have An Announcement To Make

I'm planning to speak before the U.N. shortly.

The truth is, I've grown bored with my existing superpowers and will probably be getting a new costume in the near future as well.

Update On Hellstorms

Twisters were surreal, outside of previous experience in North America

Now comes the flooding

Officials concede importance of vaults for all sheeple and hint that ancestor's civil defense program may have actually had a purpose in prior years other than to provide target for leftists to mock as "pointless." (Meaning money that could go to Israel instead)

The death toll from Wednesday's storms seems out of a bygone era, before Doppler radar and pinpoint satellite forecasts were around to warn communities of severe weather. Residents were told the tornadoes were coming up to 24 minutes ahead of time, but they were just too wide, too powerful and too locked onto populated areas to avoid a horrifying body count.

"These were the most intense super-cell thunderstorms that I think anybody who was out there forecasting has ever seen," said meteorologist Greg Carbin at the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.

"If you experienced a direct hit from one of these, you'd have to be in a reinforced room, storm shelter or underground" to survive, Carbin said.

Post-Apocalyptic Sculptures of the West

In the short space of a generation, large parts of Western civilization are looking abandoned and forgotten. Are there actually any Europeans left at all? Or have they already become extinct? These pieces look like structures built by Morlocks in H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine.

I forget where it was but I saw this picture of a statue in front of an automobile company in Detroit a while back and it made me feel like weeping to contemplate how rapidly the whole enterprise has unraveled into dissolution. Is it too much to ask that my life not be framed around the event? I seem to have had to suffer through the entire thing with a front row seat and absolute helplessness to do anything about it. I have simply been cast as an observer. I'm good at it but if I wasn't, who'd notice?

Catastrophic Twisters Ripping Into Kwa Like Biblical Curse

Monsters a mile wide never seen before in U.S. history of such strength and ferocity

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
- Ps. 83:15-18

As far north as Michigan

Tuscaloosa reduced to ruined wasteland

178 confirmed dead, more to come for sure

Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama left looking like Japan Coastline

Thousands injured and without power, entire region is blacked out

The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Na. 1:3

Looks like most records for tornado season have been blown away going back several centuries

No surprises with temperature records for cold weather in April being set all over U.S.

Go cry me a river to the million or so dead Iraqi civilians, mostly women and children, who died beneath your cowardly carpet bombing campaigns in the Middle East! They didn't deserve what happened to them, either - except it was you that did it who will now weep because of what God has seen fit in his justice to do to you! What good are your tears when you cannot shed them for anyone but yourself! Your vanity and self-righteousness has been calling out for justice for a long time - the Lord says it shall be meted out to you as you have meted it out to others!

Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- Ps. 127:1

The Greased Rails To WW3 Lie Ahead

Paul Roberts on the Coming Third World War.

Klausewitzian. No Geneva Convention. No limits. Do-or-Die, Take-No-Prisoners, Winner-Take-All. Salted with Cobalt-60 For Hygienic and Safe Civilian Disinfection.

300 Million Hungry People With No Food, No Future, No Sense, No Freedom And Two Billion Guns

I'm not against unregulated gun ownership by humans. It's guns in the hands of Kwanzanians that worries me.

You do the math and tell me how this turns out.

It's not 2002 any more. You don't have to manifest precognition or risk being called a weirdo like me because you draw the most obvious conclusions in the year 2011. It's pretty clear at this stage what is going to happen in the Kwa.

Babies, the other white meat.

Kwanzan South Reduced To Rubble By Godsmack

Spiked hail firing Supercell storms rolling around in record setting numbers flinging out tornados like hummingbees, reducing huge swaths of landscape in Alabama and Tennessee to splinters and ruins in addition to leaving the 'Zanies in this region in the Dark Ages.

Vault-Co predicts this will someday be described as temperate spring weather in the Kwa by the surviving remnant.

If God is your terrorist, what is your counter-terrorism program? Die screaming with idiotic expressions on your face, essentially. The last thing to go on the Kwanzan is the smirk. We're number one, dude! (They mean job #1 for God's wrath) They should get Ted Haggard to tell God he is being unreasonable and may be subject to sanctions by the Baptists if he doesn't start acting the way they want him to. Doesn't God know that Kwanzanians are God's special people? God is working with Al Quaeda!! God will be rendered and waterboarded when they catch him!

Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous [a name hated by all men] and much vexed.
- Ezekiel 22:5

ELM327 : Cheapest CANBUS Interface

I have discovered both DOS and Win32 code to support the two most popular and ubiquitous interfaces to CANBUS for both serial ports and USB, the SJA-1000 chip for PCI & PC/104, the ELM327 interface for USB and Serial ports.

I picked up an SJA-1000 controller board for $12.00 on EBay, I got an ELM327 interface for $11.00 with free shipping. Once you have these boxes to connect your CANBUS (ECU) line to your PC through this interface, you can read and write as freely as you do to any other control device in Vault-OS.

I know how to build an I2C interface for under $5.00 for both serial and USB ports. The CANBUS will require you to obtain either the SJA-1000 board or else the ELM327 box. Once you have your CANBUS talking by either means, you can now speak to every single CANBUS ECU in the world on this line. The average automobile has around 70+ of these ECUs on them, in a post-apocalyptic environment there should be no shortage of car hulks you can harvest if you need to.

Considering I now have the start of a generic RS-485 interface in Lua script with the capacity to transmit Modbus protocol over this line if desired, I'd say this should just about cover any type of industrial device you can imagine you might want to hook up to Vault-OS right through to the end of next century.

To those of you who have frequently urged me in emails to seek another paradigm than I2C alone, thanks for constantly prodding me. It only took a couple years and I realized the wisdom of the idea. I can't imagine version 1.0 of VAULT-OS without CANBUS now.

UPDATE: Purchase CANBUS experimenter's node from Futurlec to get your system up and running on plain vanilla PELICAN protocol as quickly as possible!

(Note that a single CAN Node like the one above is nearly sufficient by itself to run a microgarden hydroponics setup through a web server system like VOS, with four digital and two analog connections.)